Since then the province has been known for its internal divisions, split up into many different smaller kingdoms to varying degrees throughout its history. It was only the threat of a common enemy in the Orcs of Tamriel that eventually saw Hammerfell enter into an alliance with High Rock, culminating in the 1E 950 Siege of Orsinium. The Bretons of High Rock are humans with strains of Elven ancestry, the result of Aldmer settlement in the First Era. The Redguard conquest of Hammerfell was swift and brutal, and Tamriel's new arrivals initially refused to trade with neighboring nations, instead retaining the language and gods of Yokuda. Hammerfell was settled by the Redguards when they left their homeland of Yokuda, a large continent to the west of Tamriel that supposedly sank into the ocean during the First Era. Separated by the Iliac Bay, the two locations have histories united by conflict. The provinces of Hammerfell and High Rock are the homes of the Redguards and the Bretons respectively. RELATED: Starfield Trailer May Hint at The Elder Scrolls 6 Location Here's everything fans need to know about High Rock and Hammerfell's history into the Fourth Era, and what they might be able to expect from the setting in The Elder Scrolls 6. It's likely that The Elder Scrolls 6 will take place after the events of Skyrim, during the Fourth Era. Like all four of the first Elder Scrolls games, however, Daggerfall takes place at the end of the Third Era.
Although the speculation goes all the way back to the landscape seen in the next Elder Scrolls game's 2018 reveal trailer, a tiny detail in the new Starfield gameplay trailer seemed to back up that suspicion with a marking resembling a map of High Rock and Hammerfell.Īssuming The Elder Scrolls 6 does take place across High Rock and Hammerfell, it will be returning to the same general area as The Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall, which featured both provinces. Bethesda fans have long-suspected that Hammerfell or High Rock could be the setting of The Elder Scrolls 6, and eagle-eyed gamers finally got another possible hint at the setting of the highly anticipated game at E3 2021.